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You may have hit an issue if you are installing RSE from scrach on a IRIX system. Your user is not in the sudoers file and you've seen an response like this:
[your username] is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Don't worry, we can set your use up in the sudoers file quickly and easily with a few simple commands.
Why sudo? Many things in UNIX require you to do things as your user, not root. Sudo is a program that allows you to more easily execute commands as the root user without having to invoke a root shell via su.
You already have sudo installed, we just need to authorize your username on IRIX to use it.
If you are comfortable editing files with vi and you know what to do then go a head and become root (using su) and edit a new file called /usr/sgug/etc/sudoers.d/USER where USER is the username that should have access to sudo.
$ su -
[root password]
# vi /usr/sgug/etc/sudoers.d/USER
Add the following in the file, but replace USER by the actual username:
# Don't ask a password for USER for 10 minutes once one is entered
Defaults:USER timestamp_timeout=600
USER ALL=(ALL) ALL
And save the file.
If you don't know how to use vi, you can type the following instead as root, replacing USER by your username:
NAME=USER
cat << EOF > /usr/sgug/etc/sudoers.d/$NAME
# Don't ask a password for $NAME for 10 minutes once one is entered
Defaults:$NAME timestamp_timeout=600
$NAME ALL=(ALL) ALL
EOF
Now you should be set to continue on and use rpm and tdnf as sudo on your IRIX system!
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